emergency contraception: access denied

[jrtom]

Morality clauses, EC, and broken condoms

An enraged and enraging first-person account of someone's unsuccessful attempt to get access to EC in rural Ohio.

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

That's just horrible. Thanks.

[karjack.livejournal.com]

This goes right back to why I'm pro-choice even though I'm generally anti-abortion.

The only way they would let her get access to EC was if she were raped or married? Married?! So if you're married you can murder all the babies you want (keeping in mind this is the mental stance of the people creating this 'criteria' in the first pace) but if you're single it's forced motherhood for you!

Does that make any kind of logical 'moral' sense to you? Coming at this from the angle of so-called morality, that is.

Or is it a rather blatant attempt to punish a woman for having sex out of wedlock? Let the dirty whore live with the consequences of her decision to spread her legs without a wedding ring?

That being the case, is it really moral to treat an unborn child -- which when wanted is a great and incredible thing -- as a punishment? And what kind of life does a punishment baby hope to look forward to? Besides, in places where abortion is legal, isn't withholding EC just prolonging the inevitable and making it more expensive and paifnul for everyone involved?

Oops, sorry. Some logic escaped there.

Logn story short, the reason I am decidedly pro-choice even though I'm anti-abortion is that I don't think it's moral at all to use children as a punishment to inflict upon a woman for the crime of deciding what to do with her body with or without the state's sanctioned okay.

Gah. Infuriating is right!